Wallpaper

GTK theme

XFCE theme

Please see this full review of Gutsy – LINK

Wallpaper

XFCE/GTK theme

Conky script

XFCE compositing (not running compiz)

The year 2007 will long be remembered as the “INVASION OF LINUX”. I can attribute this to the following factors:

• The bombing of a long over-due high dollar operating system / greed of said company (patent infringements)
• The 7.04 release of ubuntu with many other distros following up with a great release of their own
• Dell and other manufactures offering Linux on their desktops/laptops
• Linux sites doubling/tripling in activity from last year

It seems these days “LINUX” is the buzz on news sites, blog sites, and most importantly other OS sites. I cannot remember a time when I have scrolled through the news and saw the word “LINUX” used so many times. There are so many great distros out there now, I want to download them all.

In the last month I have tried simplymepis, sabayon, Fedora, OpenSuse, and the latest build of Kubuntu. All of these are great releases with stunning graphics, 3D desktop acceleration (out of the box) and offer a full suite of office applications.

Sabayon was installed on my kids (8and11) computer (they have always been other OS users, and they use the shiny fruit computers at school), dual booting with the other OS just in case. BTW sabayon will run compiz from the live CD – WOW! Since installing sabayon they have not booted into the other OS not even one time! I am a PROUD DAD!

The other day my 8-year old sent me an email with an attachment (text file created in sabayon), I was at work when I received it (we use that other OS at work) and the thing would not open it and I was like YES YES, it was so cool. However it did open just fine when I got home.

In conclusion I would like to say the Penguins have invaded computer land and they are here to stay! There is nothing any big company can do to stop the invasion no matter what silliness they come up with next.

Wallpaper

XFCE Theme (Daloa – comes with xfce)

XFCE is a great window manager, much faster than Gnome or KDE. It has built-in compositing, and everything that I have installed has worked right away. I am very impressed with this light-weight WM.

The built-in compositing adds transparencies as well as shadows, although it is NOT compiz-fusion it does have a natural feel to it. Unfortunately there are two things it falls short on: 1. No shadow behind the panel. 2.If you make the panel transparent, the icons go with it. By the way, compiz-fusion works great with XFCE.

I really like the file manager – THUNAR, wow, light-weight, very-fast, just very COOL. There is one down-fall here, support for network shares are non-existent (there is a work-around by mounting then putting a short-cut) but I think the next release will support this.

Can we ever just get rid of winblows, cheese and bread mon, it just wont go away !!! Virtual-Box has finally gotten it right all my USB devices work now including the blackberry. Anyway at least I dont have to actually boot into windows or have a windows partition.

Overall XFCE is a real contender for the WM position, I cant wait for the next release.

All wallpapers:

boat at night

beach 

horizon

green leaves 

wallpaper 

compiz-fusion theme 

wallpaper

gtktheme

c-fusion theme

gnome panel

icons

Shift Plugin for compiz-fusion:

I followed this guide.

• wallpaper
• icons
• dock
• panel

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